India imposes stringent criminal penalties, including life imprisonment in some states, for
cow slaughter, based on a Hindu ethic of revering the cow as sacred. And yet India is among …

The discipline of anthropology recoils instinctively at the idea that its researchers' labor
might contribute to the national security state; other disciplines celebrate the same …

Maintaining informants' confidentiality is a cornerstone of ethical clearance in most
academic institutions' boards, and a pre-requisite to conduct ethnographic fieldwork …

In this article, we give some insight into the growing debate on informed consent among
social and cultural anthropologists in Germany and beyond that takes as its current starting …

This article draws from fieldwork with Iranian-American Muslim women in Los Angeles to
address the difficulties of occupying a halfie position in the ethnography of faith. While …

Purpose This study focuses on the practical and ethical implications of the cultural practice
of wasta for organizational ethnography in the Middle East. Wasta is a form of intercession …

This article focuses on the pedagogical project of the Hizmet Movement, with a special focus
on its gender politics as they were activated and performed at one of the movement's …

In recent years there has been a religious turn in the development sector with the World
Bank and national funding agencies in Europe and the US opening the space to Faith …

This paper contributes to the scholarship on research in difficult environments by shedding
light on the methodological and ethical implications of working with community researchers …